{"id":60986,"date":"2020-04-02T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=60986"},"modified":"2020-04-02T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T06:22:15","slug":"crazy-emperor-caligula","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/crazy-emperor-caligula\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Emperor Caligula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Caligula\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Emperor Caligula<\/a> was the first emperor who compared himself to god and called himself like that. What&#8217;s more, he allowed himself bizarre decisions, including <b>appointing his horse a senator<\/b>. About Caligula&#8217;s favourite horse (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/incitatus-horse-of-caligula\/\">Incitatus<\/a><\/em>, meaning &#8220;swift&#8221; or &#8220;at full gallop&#8221;) writes <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a> in &#8220;About the Life of the Caesars&#8221;. According to the Roman writer, the animal had 18 servants who cared for it. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The steed lived in a marble stable, walked in a harness decorated with precious stones, and ate from an ivory manger. He was fed oat mixed with gold flakes. Whether this diet suited him is not known.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a> often <b>dressed in women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-society\/clothing-in-ancient-rome\/\">clothes<\/a><\/b> and performed in public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dalej\"><a title=\"Caligula not completely crazy?\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/artykul\/kaligula-dwie-twarze\/\">Was Caligula really crazy?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36843,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-60986","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/60986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=60986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}